Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything.
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
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It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.
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The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
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When we talked about a wall, right, to try to keep out this threat. The problem is that these are ideas. And they are filtering throughout the world. And it was naïve, and I think ultimately, the reason why we, as Muslims, stood on Friday and went to the mosque and took the risks on our own lives, is because we've had enough. I think the world has had enough.
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It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.
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A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about making it. That's usually the efficient, reasonable way to get something done, but it limits you to ideas you can think of in advance.
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.